Swindon University plans to go ahead
The death of Swindon College principal Clive Brain in the Southall rail disaster last week will not disrupt plans for a new University of Swindon and Wiltshire, his colleagues said this week. Mr...
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Ministry hears Dearing student complaints
The Department for Education and Employment met students and representatives from universities, colleges and the Higher Education Funding Council for England this week to discuss Sir Ron Dearing's...
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V-cs warned on Dearing hopes
A key civil servant behind the Government's forthcoming lifelong learning white paper indicated this week that Sir Ron Dearing's higher education report will have a lower priority than vice...
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Tax errors threaten timetable timetable
THE MEANS tests of hundreds of thousands of students for tuition fees next year could be inaccurate, the British Universities Finance Directors Group has warned. Miles Hedges, the chairman, said the...
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Department of Health announces that it will pay medical and dental students' tuition fees during the fifth and sixth year
The Department of Health announced this week that it will pay all tuition fees for medical and dental students during the fifth and sixth year of their study. Health secretary Frank Dobson said that...
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Master stroke
Robert Stevens, master of Pembroke College, Oxford, is a vociferous champion of top-up fees. "Quality comes at a price," he argued in The Guardian this week, and universities must be given autonomy...
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Rabbi rouser
The position of University of Ulster chancellor Rabbi Julia Neuberger is again under strain, after the university refused to confirm it had withdrawn a statement distancing itself from her comments...
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Spare the Rod
Another hotbed of top-up fees enthusiasm may have an incomplete understanding of who's who in higher education finance. "While universities have been expanding, they have had to do so while coping...
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Bang to rights
Has Robin Cook troubled to send David Blunkett and Tessa Blackstone a copy of the international convention on economic, social and cultural rights to which we have all agreed by the United Kingdom's...
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Down to Earth
Is a Godfather-type feud breaking out in the earth sciences? Earlier this week, vandals chucked a brick through the window of the normally placid Geological Society of London. But the truth is...
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Billion-dollar brain
Alumnus to be proud of No 138 must think the UN system is worth supporting, as he is about to hand it $1 billion. In the International Who's Who Ted Turner is billed as American broadcasting...
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Call for equality league
PUBLIC funding for universities should be linked directly to equal opportunities performance data, a senior law lecturer said this week after five years of race discrimination litigation against...
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Green job for Holland
EXETER University vice chancellor Sir Geoffrey Holland is to chair an "expert panel" to promote environmental education in colleges and universities, it was announced this week by the Department of...
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SOAS in balancing act
PLANS for an extra 300 studentsbut no additional staff will form the basis of a new business strategy for the School of Oriental and African Studies, writes Phil Baty. London University's SOAS is...
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Cabbies ranked by class
Language: TEFL techniques, the Internet, class and jokes have parts to play in learning and development Why does a Parisian taxi driver speak with almost exactly the same dialect as a Parisian...